Roger Dean’s most famous for his otherworldly album sleeves for 70’s Prog Rockers YES, in the 80’s and early 90’s he also produced a number of of pieces of Cover Art for scouse Software House Psygnosis (mentioned elsewhere in this Blog). “Shadow of the Beast” was one of their most popular releases and featured – for the time – pretty slick graphics, including a lavishly animated main character and parallax scrolling. The gameplay wasn’t all that, it did however have a wicked atmospheric score from computer game music innovator David Whittaker.
Some of the Game Boxes came with a free T Shirt, now highly sort after, and boxes featuring the tshirt show up on ebay selling for north of £50 / $100. As a sucker for geek but knowingly cool rubbish I would pay that, but I’m betting its a shit fruit-of-the-loom job.
I just found this fantastic blog of yours and I have to brag that I actually have that original box (bought it the day the game came out) and shirt and yes it is of terrible quality… But it’s only worn on very special occations, so it doesn’t matter
Comment by Stakker — September 29, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
hey thanks – so you got the original Haha, thats ace!!
Comment by admin — September 29, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
lol, i just found this box when i was lookin through some old stuff of mine in the attic. i never would have worn this shirt back then, but now i’m kinda happy that i didn’t throw it away..
Comment by darkPanda — October 28, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
I had that Beast shirt, got it for a few dollars at a thrift store in the 80s/early 90s. I have no idea where it is if I still have it. I really hope I didn’t give it away.
Comment by Liquidwolf — June 6, 2009 @ 12:58 am
[...] quick follow up post to a feature I ran a year ago featuring Roger Dean’s Artwork for the game “Shadow of the Beast” published by legendary 80’s/90’s 16bit software house Psygnosis. This image is a close [...]
Pingback by Sci-Fi-O-Rama » Roger Dean - Shadow of the Beast T Shirt — July 20, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
i have this shirt,if anyone wants to buy it from me, convo me on my etsy account melissahatesyou.etsy.com
Comment by melissa hatesyou — August 19, 2009 @ 4:52 pm